I don’t know if LVM acts the same as btrfs, but in order for my root snapshots to work, I couldn’t have the swapfile directly in /. It has to be made in /swap/swapfile to work. Just something to be aware of.

True, I forgot about that. I should amend my statement to say I wish Hyprland or sway would implement it. I like Labwc as well, but it took me half a day to write UL, UR, LL, and LR quarter tile window shortcuts.

Yeah, if you have spotty internet service or are using a minimal data plan, that can be an important deciding factor. You can leave an Arch system without updating too, as long as you don’t install a new package.

I tried TWM for a hot minute a couple years ago, thinking I’d be so cool for having the absolute minimal GUI possible. But the config syntax was impenetrable for me. I do still miss the left click root menu concept. I wish wl-roots compositors would implement that.

Don’t get me wrong, I used Mint for a year, it’s what helped me quit macOS for good. It’s a great distro, where you don’t have to delve into advanced Linux topics just to get things working, which is what kept me as just a visitor to Linux for years prior. But once I did get the hang of Linux, I was drawn to Arch’s philosophy of installing only what you want (* systemd being the glaring exception). Then I got converted to tiling WMs. So now there’s very little about LMDE that appeals to me. I’d still recommend it to anyone though.

You can install Cinnamon on Arch though.

The difference from Obtanium seems to be that it presents an app-store front end, so you can browse and search for packages. Obtanium requires manual setup for each repo you want to add.